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One of the largest collections of taonga Maori in the country will become much more accessible under Auckland War Memorial Museum’s 20-year Future Museum strategy.
A priority is the restoration of the Ngati Maru meeting house Hotunui and the redevelopment of the Maori court into Te Awe.
Linnae Pohatu, the museum’s director of Maori projects and development, says it will give the public a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes.
"When the doors are open into one of our storage rooms you can see right into the taonga and there's a big window whete the public will be able to see our team along with whanau, hapu and iwi people working on the taonga at the same time so doing the digital stuff, taking the photographs, doing the conservation work and learning more about the taonga themselves," she says.
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